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Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku, freelance journalist, runs a private media outfit, Bob MajiriOghene Communications, Abuja. He received training in ECOWAS institutions in Accra, Ghana and in environmental journalism by the International Institute for Journalism, IIJ of InWent, Berlin Germany all in 2008. Bob is the author of Deep Sighs, Tears for A Birthday & other poems, Secrets of a Diary, SAT/TOEFL Essays: lesson notes questions & answers, and has concluded the draft of a children's book, Mamud & the Moringa Tree in August 2013. Other manuscripts he is working on include HOLY LIES, (a play), Once upon a Dog and Other Stories, and I WANT TO LICK MY UKODO & OTHER POEMS. He lives in Abuja, Nigeria and is facilitator for the prose fiction module for the monthly writing workshops organised by the Abuja Writers Forum, AWF. His opinion pieces have been published by Nigerian newspapers like Vanguard, ThisDay, Daily Independent, The Guardian of Nigeria, and by international publications like Equatorial Press, YahooVoices and in a German periodical, KULTURAUSTAUSCH. He can be reached on 08156171133  -  majirioghene@yahoo.com. Visit his blog.

  • Between Blood Diamonds and Blood Diamond

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku February 5, 2007
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    I believe that the presence or absence of conflict is a vital element in the determination of the relevance or irrelevance of a work of art…

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  • …And to my sisters too!

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku January 29, 2007
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    You stand a very good chance of getting a lot of things done better and faster if your mother, your wife and your sister are favourably disposed towards you…

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  • How To Survive A Fidel Castro Surgical Operation

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku January 29, 2007
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    There are so many things you should have in mind before you go for a major or minor intestinal surgical operation in a private clinic in my country…

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  • A Basilica Of Thanks To My Brothers…

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku January 28, 2007
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    The one thing I know now is that life is a precious, precious gift from God that we must do all to live, safeguard and treasure. Our life does not …

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  • Why Atiku Will Be President In 2007

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku January 28, 2007
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    As the days turn into weeks and as the weeks turn into months, inexorably dragging us all to the semi-evil days of Nigeria’s election in April, it is not a …

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  • Prediction on the Trial of Saddam Hussein

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku January 19, 2007
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    The period of gunboat and bazooka diplomacy died a dishonourable death a long, long time ago with Lord Palmerston, Otto Von Bismarck and Adolf Hitler. Today’s wars are usually wars …

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  • We Must Adjust This Catheter Life Of Ours…!

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku January 19, 2007
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    One of the reasons that one can safely adduce for the seeming numbness and complacency of the elite, the hoi polloi and the international community against the oppressive tendencies of …

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  • Who Will Teach Our Children?

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku December 25, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    The sun has arisen daily from the East and has set in the West since the turn of the century bringing with it a lot of changes, but the poor …

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  • Yar’Adua/Goodluck Duo As Third Term Alternative

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku December 23, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Tell you what…the man who has been picked as the PDP presidential candidate is really no different from the Shehu Shagari of our Second Republic…

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  • Interview with IBB

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku December 6, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    I was military president. I ruled as a dictator and what you must understand then was that I was accountable to myself and not to any House of Representatives or …

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  • To the Wannabe Governors who would be President

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku November 28, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    A ‘good’ political record is a relative item and term that can be bought and sold in the supermarket of politics. The good records that these presidential aspirants parade is …

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  • Letter to Edo State House of Assembly

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku November 22, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    To the honorable members of the Edo State House of Assembly: it does not give me any pleasure to write these lines to you. What I have to say to you …

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  • Journeys to Owo and Benin City

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku November 20, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Life is a journey. And all of the men and women who traverse its length and breadth are merely sojourners…

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  • Still Bearing Daddy’s Surname Even After Marriage?

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku November 18, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    My colleague says no matter the political and historical and economic value that his sweetheart’s name may bring to his life, he would not allow his wife to keep her daddy’s …

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  • Expectations Of An Eligible Spinster…

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku November 13, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Part of the reason why a lot of my sisters are not married and are unlikely to find that Mr. Right who would occupy that special place they have reserved …

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  • Power Must Shift to the North!

    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku November 13, 2006
    by Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku

    Let us make it categorically clear to the exponent of power shift to the North that the people of the Niger-Delta as well as other stakeholders in this country were …

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